Here is an excellent analysis of disability in Myanmar. Thanks, MIMU. https://themimu.info/disability-analysis Jamie

Covid and coup have not affected attendance for malaria care in eastern Myanmar. Jamie ************** Surveillance to achieve malaria elimination in eastern Myanmar: a 7-year observational study Jade D. Rae, Suphak Nosten, Ladda Kajeechiwa, Jacher Wiladphaingern, Daniel M. Parker, Jordi Landier, Aung Myint Thu, Hsa Dah, Aye Be, Win Cho Cho, K.’Nyaw Paw, Eh Shee […]

I hear that the ‘medicine shortage’ is getting much worse in the last month. Jamie ****************** Medicine Shortages in Myanmar as Junta Controls US Dollar The Irrawaddy 27 July 2022 The Myanmar regime’s foreign currency restrictions are being blamed for increasing medicinal shortages. The regime last week told pharmaceutical importers that they will only receive […]

Are there any updates on the hunger strike at Obo? Jamie ****************** Myanmar Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike Beaten and Placed in Solitary Confinement The Irrawaddy 15 August 2022 Political prisoners on hunger strike at Mandalay’s Obo Prison have been beaten and placed in solitary confinement since August 3, and are being denied medical treatment, […]

The prevention of dengue would be more effective if the public health sector in Myanmar was not broken. It looks like people need to take prevention into their own hands. Jamie **************** Dengue worsens under the junta’s watch Frontier Myanmar 29 July 2022 Dengue fever cases have soared this year and doctors and public health […]

Aaagh. “The junta is also demanding students serve in government-appointed medical roles for 10 years after graduating, rather than entering the private sector.” Great longform article with appropriate use of pseudonyms. Junta drops medical school entry standards amid widespread boycott Jamie

Sometimes Thai public health officials are wildly incompetent. “Eating cooked foods, avoid eating wild animals, washing one’s hands regularly & refraining from touching animal’s blood & lymph” do not prevent monkeypox. The Public Health Ministry issued a guideline in Thai & Burmese Weds on how to avoid becoming infected with monkeypox. Eating cooked foods, avoid […]

The impact of the health care crisis in Myanmar is especially felt by the vulnerable. Jamie ****************** Myanmar’s healthcare crisis leaves expecting mothers stranded and at risk Myanmar Now Aug 6, 2021 Chit Su Phyo, 33, was eight months pregnant when she suddenly developed a fever. When it became clear that she had contracted Covid-19, […]

Here is a FB posting from Lift. Jamie *************** “လက်ဆေးမယ် ကဗျာ”ကို သင်တန်းကနေ သူ လေ့လာခဲ့ရတာပါ။ “ဖဝါး၊ ဖမိုး၊ လက်ခေါက်ချိုး၊ လက်ကြား၊ လက်မ မကျန်ရ။ ကုတ်၍ခြစ်ပါ လက္ခဏာ လက်ကောက်ဝတ်မှာ အဆုံးသတ်ပါ။” မနွယ်တစ်ယောက် ကဗျာလေးကို ရွတ်ရင်း ကလေးတွေ ထမင်းမကျွေးခင်အချိန်လေးမှာ သူ့လက်တွေကို သေသေချာချာလေး ဆေးကြောသန့်စင်နေပါတယ်။ မနွယ်အနေနဲ့ LIFT မိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့တွေက တဆင့် ပို့ချပေးနေတဲ့ သင်တန်းက “ရက်တစ်ထောင်” ရဲ့ အရေးပါတဲ့အကြောင်းကို သိခဲ့ရတုန်းက ဟုတ်နိုင်ပါ့မလားဆိုတဲ့ သံသယစိတ် ရှိနေခဲ့မိတာပါ။ ကလေးတွေကို ကျွေးမွေးရတာများ ဘာထူးပြီး သိရမှာမို့လဲဆိုပြီး ခံစားခဲ့ရပေမဲ့လည်း သင်တန်းအစီအစဉ်အတွက်တော့ စာရင်းသွင်းခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အဲဒီအချိန်တုန်းက သူ့ရဲ့ လသားအရွယ်လေးကို […]

A reminder that Dr Nang Mwe San had her medical licence revoked by the Myanmar Medical Council during the NLD administration. Jamie ***************************** Top Myanmar models face jail for alleged explicit videos AFP 6 August 2022 YANGON— Two prominent Myanmar models have been arrested and face charges of “harming culture and dignity” for posting clips […]

WHO is asking for feedback on its NCDs strategy. Can any institutions in Myanmar comment? https://www.who.int/teams/noncommunicable-diseases/updating-appendix-3-of-the-who-global-ncd-action-plan-2013-2030/ Jamie